Historical crime fiction

Sent to the Devil by Laura Lebow

By MarinaSofia

9 April, 2016

A history buff and opera fan, Laura Lebow’s lively recreation of Mozart’s Vienna is a delightful mix of fact and fiction. The gore is kept firmly off the page, and the atmosphere of the city during its cultural heyday under Joseph II reigns uppermost, despite…

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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

By DavidPrestidge

8 April, 2016

Ex-cop Bernie Gunther feels life has come full circle. In his younger days, between spells with Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he was the house detective for the city’s celebrated Adlon Hotel. Then came World War II and Gunther’s nimble foxtrot around Nazi Germany where he worked for the likes…

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Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

By DavidPrestidge

30 March, 2016

Blood of the Oak takes us back to Pennsylvania in 1765, when the British were still in control. Nominally. On the banks of the Susquehanna and Alegheny rivers, and further south in Virginia it’s not only the natives who are restless. A punitive stamp tax…

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First look: Gunther returns in The Other Side of Silence

By DavidPrestidge

19 March, 2016

Philip Kerr’s damaged but noble German cop Bernie Gunther is back for another episode and here’s your chance for a first look at The Other Side of Silence. Gunther bestrides the 20th century. We know he fought in World War I but Kerr has kept that…

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Speakers of the Dead by J Aaron Sanders

By DavidPrestidge

2 March, 2016

Writers as varied as Dashiell Hammett and Oscar Wilde have been called into action by crime fiction authors. J Aaron Sanders recruits America’s greatest poet Walt Whitman for his debut crime novel, Speakers of the Dead. The author is well suited to his subject, with…

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The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes by Michael Kurland

By RoughJustice

23 February, 2016

This author is perhaps best known for his series of comic historical thrillers featuring that infamous criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. You can read our review of the most recent book in that series, Who Thinks Evil, here. Recently, Titan Books republished another of his historical…

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First look: A Fever of the Blood

By crimefictionlover

27 December, 2015

Look what’s arrived, all wrapped up, but not exactly for Christmas. It’s got some kind of Victorian flyer with it, and a mysterious black feather. Our forensics team have determined that it’s not an authentic flyer, but the design does look mighty accomplished, and it…

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Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 December, 2015

Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan — Swedish-born writer Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut crime thriller is set in remote north Sweden in 1717. The long darkness of winter is closing in, and the scattered homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain are preparing for what the signs suggest will be a…

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Sent to the Devil by Laura Lebow

The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

First look: Gunther returns in The Other Side of Silence

Speakers of the Dead by J Aaron Sanders

The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes by Michael Kurland

First look: A Fever of the Blood

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck audiobook

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